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      <h2 class="zTitleChapter"><a name="138071">Using&nbsp;Scripting&nbsp;in&nbsp;a Report&nbsp;Design</a></h2>
      <p class="b_Body"><a name="189595">BIRT provides a powerful scripting capability that enables a report developer to create custom code to control various aspects of report creation. This chapter provides an overview of scripting in BIRT. Subsequent chapters focus on implementing script event handlers in JavaScript and Java, writing event handlers for charts, and accessing data using scripted data sources.</a></p>
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